Down in Rabbit Hole

Bad is the new good as Test heads down the rabbit hole

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Caal December 3, David December 2, Marcello November 28, Isabela November 26, Jenny November 24, Lennard November 24, Atsushi November 23, Positive feedback Thank you for being positive! Feedback added Thank you for your feedback! Something went wrong Please try again. Loading One moment please Negative feedback Please send us your negative feedback via the form below. Feedback is sent We'll review your feedback and set up a conversation. In Patrick Senecal's macabre retelling of Alice in Wonderland , Aliss , the subway is used to get to a parallel neighborhood called Daresbury.

The subway can freely be used by anyone, not just the protagonist, to travel back and forth between Daresbury and the real world - except when the subway employees are on strike. Includes masquerades , mirrors, and masks. Christine literally interprets her descent to the Opera's cellars as transition to a mystical underworld and describes the Phantom in terms reminiscent of The Fair Folk.

In the book the Opera's cellars actually have other inhabitants almost as peculiar as the Phantom himself, almost composing a miniature world in themselves, though it's more mundane than it seems to her. Or any other completely white wall. The book Marco's Millions plays this trope straight by having two kids discover a gate to another world in their basement.

Both literally and figuratively.

Be warned that within lie singularities, sacrificial swings, and cardboard boxes. The Book of Lost Things. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory has five children three male, two female , most of whom with their parents in tow, undertaking a journey into The Wonderland that is the Wonka Factory, which is mostly an Elaborate Underground Base with many twisting corridors, and at least one long, dark, intimidating tunnel that they travel through by boat.

Four of the children are pampered brats who just want more than they already have, and prove themselves unfit to progress further when they disobey their guide, give into their selfish vices, and are subjected to a variety of absurd disasters — notably, Augustus Gloop is sucked into a pipe and briefly stuck in it, and Veruca Salt and her parents are tossed down a garbage chute by nut-sorting squirrels.

Charlie Bucket, on the other hand, is a good, poverty-stricken child who needs a change of life — and is rewarded for his virtue by becoming the heir to the place. In the sequel , he and Mr. Wonka effect an Orphean Rescue by travelling far beneath the Earth. Also, in the stage musical adaptation , Mike Teavee's mother Doris — a Stepford Smiler Housewife who has affected her mannerisms in a desperate attempt to cope with her Enfant Terrible son — is, for much of the tour, a frightened Only Sane Person who just wants to come out of this place in one piece, but eventually finds herself affected by the Infectious Enthusiasm of Willy Wonka and the Oompa-Loompas and leaves the factory a much happier person than she was when she went in, thanks in part to her son getting The Neverending Story is a rare variation centered on a male protagonist or rather, two male protagonists, since the main hero takes half the book to muster enough courage to even leap down the rabbit hole —a lonely kid, who has troubles at home and at school, seeks to escape reality in fantasy, has his wish granted, and returns after having learned his lesson, stronger and better adjusted than before.

In that case, it was a variation involving going into the world of Second Life. There's even a white rabbit showing up as a guide when Mac enters the game to search for the killer-slash-avatar stealer. Fiona Apple 's song " Sleep to Dream " subverts this trope. As the wall passes over him, he blacks out, and later re-awakens in a surreal world beneath New York City.

In this case, it's a subversion, as it's revealed partway through the song to be a metaphor for being manipulated into obedience by the "white rabbit".

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Heroine is a Tabletop RPG designed to facilitate this kind of storytelling. The Hopeful invokes this trope with the Girl Underground condition. Upon experiencing emotional pain a Princess may find herself trapped in a magical Dream Land until she experiences catharsis or personal growth.

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Clara's journey isn't scary once the Mouse King is dispatched; none of the places she goes are confined or underground and she has no tasks to complete. In the non-traditional, Maurice Sendak -designed version from The '80s , after the gigantic Mouse King is killed Clara and her Nutcracker pass through a cave of sorts formed by his now-empty coat.

By the time they emerge, Clara played a preteen thus far has aged to adulthood and the Nutcracker has taken on the form of a handsome human. Cirque du Soleil 's Quidam has adolescent heroine Zoe, her parents, and two bizarre companions transported to a sometimes-melancholy Magical Land via a Nice Hat dropped off for her by the mysterious, literally faceless it has no head title character, where she learns that the loneliness and alienation she feels in the real world is in fact something everyone feels at one time or another.

Characters pop up from trap doors in the stage from time to time; Zoe herself does so as the closing scene begins. The Legend of Zelda: Link goes looking for his Fairy Companion , who left at the end of the previous game , so he goes searching in the Lost Woods. His horse gets stolen, he gets turned into a plant, and then he gets stuck in a "Groundhog Day" Loop while he tries to stop the moon from falling.

The Longest Journey explicitly references Alice at many occasions. April Ryan is an art student struggling with art block, when she is drawn into an epic plot to save not just her world, but also a parallel universe of magic and wonder. While there is no actual tunnels involved, her Shifts portals that connect the two worlds look a lot like that from the inside. Ultimately, however, the game proves to be a subversion, rather than return from her journey strengthened and more adjusted, April becomes a bitter cynic who has lost any purpose in her life.

The sequels, Dreamfall Chapters in particular, do hint, however, that her journey is actually far from over Athena has this more or less as an Excuse Plot. The Japanese arcade flyer advertised the game as being about "Athena's Wonder Land," and the intro to the Arcade Game even shows her falling down some sort of hole. She ends up stuck in Wonderland. But also given a Deconstruction as the antagonists found the rabbit hole before the protagonists and are using it to wreak havoc in the electronic "wonderland".

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In Holiday Wars , the lead character Tegan Cassidy gets sucked into a world where the Holidays are personified as characters and are at war with each other. She first learns out about this other world in this strip. In The Wormworld Saga , the portal to another world is not so much a tunnel as a picture frame. Jonas still crawls through it though. Also, when he first finds the portal it's covered with a blanket which forms folds that Jonas has to spread open when he peeks through it.

Daisy reaches the Rainbow Dimension through a strangely colorful alley.

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This site is all about this trope. It calls it "Girls Underground". Also features a number of examples.

Alice Liddell , after years of being sent to insane asylums because of her delusion, ends up at a new place, run by Nobel Prize winner Sir Ernest Rutherford, who has figured out that she isn't crazy. She meets two other girls: Dorothy Gale and Wendy Darling , who also have been assumed to be insane. Khawaja, a university graduate, was struck by more good balls than good ideas.

Mostly thanks to missing the ball, they had secured the advantage. The randomness was confirmed in the first overs of the middle session, when Paine, Khawaja and three others were dismissed in the space of six overs.

Perhaps the safest way to leave the ball was to try to hit the ball, and the best way to hit the ball was to aim the bat at thin air. Shane Warne thinks Australia need a new batting coach; the Mad Hatter might apply. While they were batting, the benefit of scoring vital extra runs had to be weighed against the risk of injury.

Bowling certainly looked more fun, and they quickly picked up KL Rahul and Cheteshwar Pujara, both trying to get out of the way, forgetting that to miss the ball they should have been trying to hit it. As mysteriously as a new baby, the pitch had periods when it turned placid, predictable and cute as a button. As the afternoon wore on, and Nathan Lyon was able to exploit the pitch in his own special way and take the presumptive match-winning wicket of Kohli, the question might be asked: Often, but not always, this was when the ball lost its hardness.

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